The Trial of Chicago Seven

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Just about when I was to give up on netflix, comes a fiction based on history, a story that goes back half-a-century ago, in the Windy City of Chicago. About seven young men accused of instigating a tragic riot, and a black man gagged in a US Court of Law. A poignant movie that takes one to revisit a time of cultural revolution and the disillusion of a nation about the Vietnam War. It was a time of killing, in a the Windy City of Chicago which, a hundred years ago, a poet named Carl Sandburg uncannily referred to as: Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders: The story of the Chicago Seven, and of that gagged black man, lives today, in the cities of America, where the four strong winds have blown.